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THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON, 

 INDIGENOUS AND INTRODUCED 



BY 



E. Blatter, S.J. 

 Part X. 

 (With Plates LVII—LXIII, and text figure 30.) 



(Continued from ]3age ^63 of Volume XXII.) 



0. Sub-tribe : Iriartece. 



Spadix below or rarely between the leaves, simple or branched ; 

 peduncle clothed with several tubnlar spathes. Flowers oblique, 

 free on the surface of the stout rhachis or slender branches. Female 

 and male flowers in clusters of 3, or both sexes by abortion on 

 separate spadices (mon(Bcious). Male flowers : calyx small, 

 corolla oblique, valvate, or only with the apices overlapping ; 

 stamens 6-co , free ; anthers erect. Female flowers : calj^x short, 

 staminodes never xinited, often resembling fertile stamens ; ovary of 

 3 united carpels, oblique, 3-locular. 



Fruit nearly always monocarpellary with 1 seed ; berry with 

 thin endocarp ; raphe branched. 



Distribution. — Tropical America, from Costa Rica in the north 

 to Juan Fernandez in the south. 



Iriartea, R. & Pav., Catoblastus, Wendl., Wettinia, Poepp. 

 & Endl., Geroxylon, H. B. Kth., Juania, Dr. 



No representatives in India. 



D. Sub-tribe : Moreniece. 



Spadix below or between the leaves ; spathes tubular. Flowers 

 free on the surface or slightly sunk in cavities, symmetrical, 

 unisexual on the spadix or male and female together. Calyx 

 short, 3-lobed or of 3 leaves ; petals free or united, valvate (except 

 some species of Ghamoidorea and Synechanthus which have an 

 imbricate corolla in the female flowers). In the female flower the 

 ovary completely or incompletely 3-locular. 



Fruit a berry of 1-3 separately developing carpels. Leaves 

 regularly paripinnate (rarely pinnately dentate). 



Distribution. — All the genera (except IlyopJiorbe and Chry- 

 salidocarpus) are American, especially tropical South Mexican. 



Chamaedorea, Willd., Morenia, R. & P.. Kunthia, Humb. & 

 BonpL, Ghrysalidocar'ims, H. Wendl., Hyopliorbe, Gaertn., Gaussia, 

 Wendl., Pseudophcenix,. Wendl. & Dr., Synechanthus, Wendl., 

 Eeinhardtia. Liebm . 



